Of the 660,190 signatures submitted by Opportunity Ohio, only a meager 276,082 (42%) were verified as valid by the Sec of State.

On July 20th, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted certified that ResponsibleOhio has failed to meet the necessary requirements to place their proposed constitutional amendment, titled “Marijuana Legalization Amendment,” before voters on the November 2015 General Election Ballot.

Petitioners were required to submit at least 305,591 valid signatures, a number equal to 10 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election, 2014. Having submitted only 276,082 valid signatures statewide, ResponsibleOhio has failed to meet this requirement.

As part of the total number of signatures needed to place the measure on the ballot, petitioners are also required to have submitted signatures from at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties, and within each of those counties, collected enough signatures equal to five percent of the total vote cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election, 2014. The petitioners met this requirement, having collected enough signatures to meet the five percent threshold in 73 counties.

Having failed to meet all of the constitutional requirements to place the issue on the ballot, petitioners will be given 10 additional days to make up the difference. Additional signatures must be submitted to the Secretary of State’s office no later than July 30, 2015.

Below is the signature counts submitted for each county.

COUNTY

SUBMITTED

VALID

VALIDITY

Adams

817

463

56.7%

Allen

6,750

2,503

37.1%

Ashland

1,474

968

65.7%

Ashtabula

3,357

1,687

50.3%

Athens

1,908

967

50.7%

Auglaize

686

519

75.7%

Belmont

756

479

63.4%

Brown

1,913

943

49.3%

Butler

13,199

5,473

41.5%

Carroll

935

540

57.8%

Champaign

1,489

950

63.8%

Clark

8,756

4,435

50.7%

Clermont

7,064

3,025

42.8%

Clinton

1,668

701

42.0%

Columbiana

326

176

54.0%

Coshocton

934

711

76.1%

Crawford

2,184

875

40.1%

Cuyahoga

105,253

43,023

40.9%

Darke

1,999

1,017

50.9%

Defiance

1,688

723

42.8%

Delaware

3,592

2,027

56.4%

Erie

4,148

2,030

48.9%

Fairfield

5,440

2,601

47.8%

Fayette

1,260

635

50.4%

Franklin

106,354

42,773

40.2%

Fulton

1,264

597

47.2%

Gallia

547

404

73.9%

Geauga

1,208

848

70.2%

Greene

6,540

3,048

46.6%

Guernsey

1,425

956

67.1%

Hamilton

100,354

34,000

33.9%

Hancock

2,861

1,089

38.1%

Hardin

1,247

750

60.1%

Harrison

518

309

59.7%

Henry

992

570

57.5%

Highland

1,286

623

48.4%

Hocking

1,182

713

60.3%

Holmes

732

384

52.5%

Huron

1,809

895

49.5%

Jackson

870

517

59.4%

Jefferson

156

101

64.7%

Knox

2,195

1,137

51.8%

Lake

7,467

3,970

53.2%

Lawrence

58

25

43.1%

Licking

6,643

3,389

51.0%

Logan

1,758

986

56.1%

Lorain

10,504

4,736

45.1%

Lucas

78,317

27,082

34.6%

Madison

2,221

945

42.5%

Mahoning

11,851

5,290

44.6%

Marion

2,296

1,282

55.8%

Medina

2,542

1,340

52.7%

Meigs

738

423

57.3%

Mercer

192

96

50.0%

Miami

3,809

2,208

58.0%

Monroe

41

33

80.5%

Montgomery

24,181

10,513

43.5%

Morgan

543

294

54.1%

Morrow

1,021

674

66.0%

Muskingum

4,252

1,849

43.5%

Noble

332

240

72.3%

Ottawa

1,543

837

54.2%

Paulding

635

320

50.4%

Perry

1,384

705

50.9%

Pickaway

1,989

933

46.9%

Pike

1,019

452

44.4%

Portage

5,050

2,462

48.8%

Preble

1,214

678

55.8%

Putnam

775

304

39.2%

Richland

4,636

2,385

51.4%

Ross

3,121

1,318

42.2%

Sandusky

2,247

1,219

54.3%

Scioto

2,534

998

39.4%

Seneca

2,151

902

41.9%

Shelby

1,816

992

54.6%

Stark

15,942

7,435

46.6%

Summit

25,347

10,578

41.7%

Trumbull

6,654

3,054

45.9%

Tuscarawas

1,207

685

56.8%

Union

1,721

1,041

60.5%

Van Wert

965

472

48.9%

Vinton

426

265

62.2%

Warren

1,787

945

52.9%

Washington

194

94

48.5%

Wayne

1,807

1,011

55.9%

Williams

1,300

679

52.2%

Wood

4,263

2,351

55.1%

Wyandot

561

407

72.5%

Grand Total

660,190

276,082

41.8%

By John McAvoy|July 21st, 2015|Ohio Politics|Comments Off on Marijuana Legalization Amendment falls short of required signatures

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